Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers

Overview

Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers has a national median salary of $52,600 per year, with +4.8% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a postsecondary certificate as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.

Work Values

• Support
• Relationships
• Independence

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
• Compute cost estimates for labor and materials.
• Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
• Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.
• Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.

Work Activities

• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
• Getting Information
• Working with Computers
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Processing Information
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Communicating with People Outside the Organization

Detailed Work Activities

• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a postsecondary certificate as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a bachelor's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Bachelor's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a postsecondary certificate.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers:

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